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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
NOW FOR THE COMMITS SION.

| Now that the Interstate commerce bill
is law the next matter of interest in
connection with thu measure is the make
up of the commission. The bill provides
for commission of five persons, whose
term of Office shall be fer six years, with
the exception of the first appointments,
which are to be for two, three, four, five
and six years. The commissioners have
annual salaries of $500 each. The Pres
ident makes the appointments, by and
with the advice and consent of the Sen
ate. The personnel of the commission
will possess real interest for the country
at large. Places will be in demand, as the
salary is decidedly remunerative and the
duties are not likely to be especially ar
duous. The law allows plenty CT help in
the way of clerks, provides for travelling
expenses, and the work OF the commission
will be rather lelsurely than otherwise.
The President will, no doubt, exercise a
great deal of care in selecting
as there will inevitably be plenty
of criticism, no matter how wise and i'm
partial the selections. The Republicans,
very naturally, will be ready to take quick
advantage of anything that even approx
mates righteousness or laundering on
the part of Mr.. Cleveland and, unless
human nature undergoes a material
change, there will not be lacking Demo-
Gratis to join in the criticisms, for of the
Democrats who want the places, for them
selves or friends, there must of necessity
be some who will be disappointed, and
these will not fail to fiud defects in those
who are successful. 1t will not do to ap-
point men who are at all extreme. either
way. The railroads and their friends
will of course resent the selection of COM
missioners recognized as in any way I'M
friendly to railroad interests, while on
the other hand if the commission is made
up of men peculiarly acceptable to the
railroads, the general public will raise
hue and cry. 1t is q delicate and
trying duty that devolves upon
Mr.. Cleveland, and he will need
to approach it with all the tact
and observation-disclosures he possesses, to the
end that justice may be done to both in
terests, the one represented by the peo-
Pile who have to do business with the
railroads, and the other by the men who
own the roads. The appointments may
be expected at an early date, as most of
the provisions of the act take effect sixty
days after passage. The appointment of
men of high personal character and rec
ognized business ability will inspire the
country with confidence in the workings
of the law, which for long time must of
necessity be largely experimental, thus
demanding with imperative force, that it
shall be administered by men capable of
rising to proper apprecia ton of the re-
sponsibilities involved.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27

From the above it will be seen that
Terrell withdrew on the fourth ballot !;
that Reagan received ct least one-half if
not three-fourths of Terrell's vote and
that he has steadily forged ahead from
the first ballot; that Maxey has steadily
lost ground from the start, his gain on
the withdrawal of Terrell being neutral
lied in view of his vote on the first and
fifth ballots; and that Ireland has re-
ceived five Terrell votes and stolen seven
more from Maxey since the battle opened.
Maxey and Ireland will both zee in
these figures that Reagan is the man to
beat. Which of the two shall yield to the
other in death struggle with the Sage of
Palestine? If either yields can he trans
fer all his strength to the other or will
some of it fly to Reagan, who needed
only seventeen votes on the fifth ballot?
Will either be willing to yield if con-
vinced that such concession will defeat
Reagan? Would not such knowledge
embitter both and stiffen their backbones
or throw one of them into Rea-
CAMS willing arms? Ireland can hold
q larger percentage of his vote than Max
ey can; but can Reagan attract seventeen
votes from his competitors against their
will2 And what will the Lower House do
of the wishes of candidates?
That body is full of hay-seed, and Reagan
is prophet not without honor among
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27

PECULIAR are the uses for charity. Tat
there should be dancing at funerals seems
scarcely more incongruous than were the
elaborate and expensive preparations for
the recent charity ball at Baltimore. Had
the money thus expended been devoted
TO the ostensible object it might have
gone further in good deeds, but then the
result would have been minus the fun.
"The display of diamonds was exception
ally fine," but what about the display of
charity? OF glistening satin there was no
lack, but what of the shining virtue, the
rarity of which has been the poets theme?
When the lights are out, the garIands
dead, how stands the proportion between
pleasure gratified and poverty relieved?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27

"THE middle that a. the warld's in"
is more apparent in mems minds when
religion, morals and politics are inter
mixed. The question of the Andover
controversy was simply whether men
should be held to the promises which they
made on entering upon an office. DR..
McGlynn's case is precisely similar, and
is not question of policies. In assum-
ing the priestly function he pledged him
self to abide by the papal edicts, and was
to have no will, no opinion, separate
from the order of which he became q
part. This allegiance involved implicit,
unquestioning obedience to his superiors,
to move and act as Rome dictated. His
refusal to comply with the fixed require
ments of his calling necessitates his sus-
pension from service until he shall be-
come acquiescent, or, if persisting, until
he be finally dismissed. By his VOWS he
is pledged to the utterances of the Cath
Ollie church, and, violating these, he is no
longer priest in it's service. His views
on any exterior question are not involved:
it is simply matter of church discipline
for which the tenets of the church are re-
sponsible. So also in the Mormon bill.
This is not directed against Mormonism
as religion, but as political system
which imperils the rights of citizenship
and arrogates to itself the prerogatives
which belong alone to the national gov
ernment
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27

SOMETHING of surprise has been &C.
casioned at Washington by the discovery
that the fine, large gold medal given to
General Grant for distinguished services
in the Mexican war, which is among the
medals placed in the National Museum, is
bogus. All the Grant medals have been
weighed by the Smithsonian savants to
test their value. The Mexican medal has
a specific gravity of only Z, when it
should weigh about 16. 1t isn't worth as
much as copper even, which weighs 8.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
SANCTUARY OF TERRELL ASSEMBLY
4 FAVORABLE OPPORTUNITY.


To Messrs. Armstrong & Bro, Dallas, Tex:
GENTS THE GAZETTE has learned
with deep regret of the misfortune which
has befsllen you, in the destruction of
your magnificent storehouse with all its
contents. But while this conflagration may
seem to be misfortune, why not con-
vert it into a blessing disguised? You
are now free to rebuild In Dallas or
move to railroad center that
will afford your energy and capital
commensurate distributing facilities. We
invite you to call before rebuilding else
where. We pledge Voua hearty W. leone
from every man in Fort Worth. We
offer you ten outlets by rail for the ship
ment of your goods, and will give you
four more outlets before the close of the
current year. We offer you the bound
less west, which contains the public
lands, which must be the home
of future growth, and which is bound to
Fort Worth by strong ties. We offer you
city that stands between the great west
and all competitors. We offer you well
come and We offer you profit, and the Of
fer is as sincere las is our admiration
for your business character and
reputation, and our confidence
that you are cast in the mold of those
plucky, enterprising men who have lifted
this city from mud-hole in the prairie
to plane with the proudest cities in the
state.
Trusting to have your prompt and IA
yorable attention, we remain yours in
sincere respect and admiration,
THIS GAZETTE.
P. S.-If, some day, you discover you
have let bird go by not coming, don't
say we did not tell you SO.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
NO SIGNS OF WAR.
The Indications on the Other Hand Point
Rather to q General Disarmament,

The Indications on the Other Hand Point
Rather to a General Disarmament.
NEW YoeK, Jan. 26.-The following
was published here this morning: Lon
don-I don't believe in war. When peo-
pie say war is inevitable it is precisely
the moment when there is little fear of
its breaking out. Even supposing Ger
many were to call upon France to disarm,
she would reply that she asked nothing
better were Germany to do the same.
The result. therefore, of the de-
mand would be that some sort
CT modus vivendi would
be established. The difficulty of disarm-
sment, however, is that Germany has to
be in position to hold her own against
France and Russia combined. The result
would therefore lead Germany to making
great efforts to settle the eastern ques-
ton, and this once settled, Austria, Rus
STA, Germany and France would possibly
agree to general plan of disarmament,
for their existing ornaments are posi-
lively running them.
lSigned n HENRY LABoUCHERE.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
WHY THE Law FAILED.

In the last report of Mr.. Walsh, ex-
Land Commissioner, occurs this pathetic
acknowledgment of the failure of the
leasing system, to the paternity of which
Mr.. Walsh lays vigorous claim: "When
the full history of the birth, rapid growth
and 'untimely taking Off of the lease
system is fully understood by the people,
there will be day of reckoning for those
responsible, if they can be found"
The lease law has been failure not
because, as Mr.. Walsh has said in his
late report, of "apathy on the psrt of
the representatives of the great interior
and intelligent industry on the part of
those representing the pasture regions"
but because as Mr.. Walsh said in mis- report
the law contemplated unlimited leases
of both dry and watered land, and made
all land subject to sale as soon as leasedn
1t was the effort to reconcile the "main-
tenance of rsnches'' Gas Mr.. Charles
Goodnight puts it, with the settlement of
the country that made of the lease law an
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27

THE time WAS when little flattery from Jay
Gould would keep st. Louis ecstatically happy
for months at a time. But at last she has dis
covered that he is a gay deceiver that flatters
only TO betray, and the Republican SAYS: "Mr.
Jay Gould is charming conversationalist. St.
Louis has quite q stock of parsnips, and 1T is a
great pity that fine words don't butter them"
Chicago Times.
Which reminds US that there be certain
Texas towns that will some day discover
Mr.. jay Gould to be ga charming CONVEX
sationalist."
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
VISITING THE DROUTH DISTRICT.
The President of the Red Cross Associa
ton Reaches Cisco.

The President of the Red Cross Associa
ton Reaches Cisco.
Special to the Gazette.
Cisco TEX, Jan. 26.-Miss Clara Bar
ton of Washington, D. c., president of
the American National Red Cross Associ-
alton, and DR.. J. B. Hubbell. general
field agent, arrived here this afternoon
on the west bound train. They were met
ct the depot by q special committee and
escorted to the City hotel. There they
were visited by the committee on relief
and your reporter. Miss Barton stated
that the condition of the drouth
stricken district of Texas had been re-
ported to the Red Cross Association, and
that il had never doubted the destitute
condition of this country, but owing TO
conflicting reports that had gone abroad,
nothing scarcely could be done until they
sent representative here to see and re-
port the matter just as it is. This dis
trust has grown out of the statements
made by Rev. John Brown while he was
in the north soliciting aid,
and their being contradicted by the
papers and the Governor of Texas;
Now, that the papers and Governor are
indorsing those same statements, she says
the people of the north and east are ready
and want to assist the sufferers of this
country, il they are in actual need, and
that as soon as the Red Cross speaks, aid
will be forthcoming. They propose to
travel out through the country and find
out the truth of the matter. They left on
the O'Clock north-bound train :forAl-
bany, where they will spend day or SO,
and then will return to this place and
travel through the country by private
conveyance.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
Rates of Advertising Furnished on Applies

Remittances by draft, posto6fce money order or
u registered letter, at risk Of office,
Correspondence is solicited upon all ne'cS sub
jectS
Prompt information of eUentS and ne,rS happen
ingS Of general interest solicited and aoi be prop
erky compensated
Al communications intended for publication
must be accompanied by the 1criter'S and Gd
dress-,pot for yubhcation-but as an eUidence Of
good faith
Parties aoriting to THE GAZETTE on business
personal to themselves aCH please incLoSe stamp for
reply
Al letters or communications for THE GAZETTE
a7Rether on business or for publication should be
addressed to THE GAZETTE, or DEMOCRAT PUB
LISTING Co Fort Forth, Ter, AND NOT TO
INDIVIDUALS.
Al checks, money orders, postal notes, ETC.,
should be made payable to the DEMOCRAT PUB
LISTING Co.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27

THE Capital, an Atlanta, Ca, daily,
which championed the amendment, thus
tells how prohibition is now working in
that city: "Whisky and beer are sold
almost as much as ever, only the city gets
nothing for it. Liquor saloonsare getting
TO be more numerous than ever, only the
license has been reduced from $500 to
800 year, and the property holders will
have to pay for the loss"
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
Accounting For 1t.
Vernon Guard.

NGTNON GUdTU.
THE GAZETTE says that strong sui
phurious odor, which can be traced to no
local cause, pervaded Fort Worth for
several nights 1t is just what everybody
has been looking for. The Fort has had
Brother Dixon Williams and other evan
gelists, who talked to the people with
tears in their eyes and lurid warnings on
their tongues, but to no purpose. Figu-
ratively, they stoned the prophets and
hardened their hearts against salvation,
and now the devil is coming up through a
hole in the ground to claim his own.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27

Nor many years since long-bladed
knife was sufficient for all the toilet
wants of Californian, but in these days
of efeminscy $3.50 dressing case is
deemed necessary. A California Judge,
however, with some remembrance of the
Spartan simplicity of '49, has decided
that while the kind of utensils found in
such case may be of use in the family,
so expensive an .rticle with its cutglass
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27

THE high bonnet must go. 1t is not
only being discarded by "toney" people
who have consideration for others, as
well as style, but some Boston women
are beginning to say that it gives them a
headache to sit through sermon with
their bonnets on, and ask why they can
not take them off in church. In behalf of
those in the rear seat, THE GAZETTE says
'let her go, Gallagher"
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
SPECIAL NOTICES,
stockholders Meeting.

FORT WORTH, TEx-rDec. l, 1856.
Notice is hereby given that there win be a
meeting of the stockholders of the Southern
Kansas Railway Company of Texas. atethe CITY
of Fort Worth, in 4he state of Texas, on Tues.
day, February l, 1887, at 10 o'clock a. m, for the
purpose Of authorizing the Issuance of a first
mortgage or the corporate property and fran.
chises of said company TO secure the paymente
of bonds to be Issued by saie company, running
forty years from their Care, drawing Interest AZ
per cent per aDnnm. payable SENT annually.
both priHcfpaf md interest to be PAYABLE In
goldscoin and limited in amount to SIG, 600 per
mile of railroad; which said inde btedness IA
proving and operating It's railway.
W. B. STRoNG, Isaac i, BuRR
"a w. NICKERsoN, ALDEN SPEARE.
GEO SEALY r s. WILLIS
WATERS 5. DAVIS, WEBSTER SNYDER,
w. III. MASTERS.
AS Directors of the Southern Kansas RailwavS
Company of Texas.
Attest, j j. MULLANE, Asst sec'y.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
CONCERTED IN SIN.

The paternity of the present statutory
abortion known as the lease law is mat
ter of some doubt. Ex-Land Commits
sioner Walsh, in his late ri port to the
Governor, says he recommended the lease
of the school lands, until wanted by the
actual settler, in report made to Gov
ernor Hubbard in 1873. In a recent in
terview Mr.. Charles Goodnight, the fam
Gus Panhandle millionaire, said: "We
(the cattlemen) acere the first to advocate
lease law. 1t is the only system by which
cattlemen can maintain their ranches"
But whether Mr. Walsh or Mr.. Goodnight
begot the lease law it SO happened that
when, through its operations, the cattle
men got what they wanted and Mr.. Walsh
got what he wanted, nobody got anything
save "the syndicates and corporations
outside of Texas" and the most pathetic
testimony to this fact is found on page
eight of Mr.. Wslsh's late report.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27

SMALLPOX is prevailing in New York;
now is the time for Brooklyn to quaran-
tine. If there are doubts as to the legal
ity of this step, precedent for such &C
ton can be found in Texas annals, vide
Dallas vs. Fort Worth.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
An Honest Man.
Chicago Herald

A New York politicians definition of
an honest man is "one who will stay
bought" There have been aldermen in
Chicago Who were not homes. men, then,
as schemers who have had to buy them
three CT four times might be willing to
testify.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
High Priced Shakespeare.
New York Mail and Eynrpss

In one Broadway store you can get fair
Shakespeare for $2.75, or, if your purse
is large enough, you can go up to the STU
pendous figure of $500. This, l think,
is the highest on the whole list, as it well
may be.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
Doeth All Things Well.



The great and good Fort Worth GA
zETTE has added pictorial device to it's
head representing Fort Worth as the CEN
ter of all railoaddom. There is nothing
like riding hobby for all it is worth and
THE GAZETTE has the act down to perfec-
tjOn
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27

bottles and silver-mounted etecteras, can
scarcely be considered necessary furni-
ture in the household, and, therefore, as
an article of luxury, is no exempt from
execution for debt.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27

COOP roads and the refrigerator are Two
Of the signs by which Fort Worth could
conquer.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
THE SENATORIAL RACE.

Below will be found the ballots so far
cast in the senatorial race, given numer-
ically, one ballot being taken Tuesday
and the other four yesterday:
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27

How MANY square miles does Texas
contain? Does any man in the state
know how large it is?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27

Round Rock supervising the getting out
of 100 carloads of stone for building a
bridge near Bsstrop.
Mrs. Judge Dyer Moore of Bastrop on
Monday last received from Washington
city an express package, containing q
portion of the jewelry taken from her
family by Sherman's army, near Camden,
S. c., in 1865,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
ATEs OF SUBSCRIPTION.
DELIVERED BY CARRIERS:

PEI Week ....-... % cents.
1rSubzcribers wishing their address
changed from one postoliCe to another, must
give the oil address as well as the new, or the
change cannot be made.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING COMPANY.

Office of Publication Second st bet,ceerl Houston
and ThrockznOrton. Entered at the Fort Worth,
TeraS Postofice as Second Class Mail Matter.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
THE GAZETTE has the Largest
bons-ida' Circulation of any Daily
NswspapeT Published in Texas.

THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 81.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27

When rod are constipatsd, with loss of
1appstise, helsache, take one of DR.. J. II.
McLean'stLittle Liysr apdsKidney Pillets.
They are pieasanf to tsEE and will cure
you. TSentshve cents svisi. ;ss,..,;5;fiss7s
The displayed advertisement OF the Chs
Trading Co, on tfe fourth page is inter
esting reading,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
TO EXCHANGE.

M ANTED-A farm, in Tarrapt. ceu nty. sufI-s
w able for raising stock, In exchange for a
stock of dry goods witch Inventories sic, 600.
To persons having more land than they want,
who would Ike to try merchandising. this is an
eXce1lent opportunity. Address or apply to
FOgel Diehl, Fort Worth, Tex
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
wANrED-BoaRDEKst

WTANTEn---Ia fsw 5ay boarderse can he ac-
ffseosffh odated with first class board at Mrs.
-A W. Chaney's, corner Seventh and Cherry
streets
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27

On to Jacksboro.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27

=. ROOMS FuR stisG., :
EtoR RENT-Eleg autIs furnished rooms with
i 6oar9, at $40 Lsinar street formerly Mrs
NJ *. Sfnfth) Ftrstcl accom- mods tiOns for
stransients at Sl.50 per day Mrs. W. S. Massey.